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BULLETIN  OF  LOMBARD  COLLEGE 


Series  XIX  JUNE,  z93i  No.  2 

Entered  as  second  class  matter,  January  9th,  1913,  at  Post  Office.  Galesburg,  Illinois,  Act  of  Auguit  24,  1912 


A  FEW 
PICTURES 


AND 


A  FEW 
WORDS 


ABOUT 


LOMBARD 
COLLEGE 


The  Elm  Hedge 


The  Most  Beautiful  Campus 


Lombard  has  long  boasted  the  most  beautiful  campus  in  the  Middle  West; 
tin  statemenl  has  never  been  challenged,  and  after  you  have  looked  through  the 
Lombard  Picture  Book,  you  will  not  only  see  why  the  boast  has  not  been  dis- 
puted, but  you  will  be  more  than  ever  anxious  to  enjoy  Lombard's  beauty  and 
educational  privileges  with  us. 


The  Winding  Path  to  Old  Main 


Elms,  Willows  and  Maples 


Ten  Acres  of  It 


A  border  of  wonderful  White  and  English  Elms  surrounds  two  sides  of 
Lombard's  ten-acre  campus,  while  sprinkled  with  a  lavish  hand  more  than  a 
hundred  varieties  of  over  three  hundred  beautiful  trees  help  make  Lombard 
tin   happy,  democratic  home  that  every  student  declares  it  to  be. 


Down  the  Winding  Path  to  Town 


Pictures  Everywhere 


Wherever  you  stand,  there's  a  picture ;  whether  it  be  summer  or  winter,  rain  or 
sunshine,  fog  or  frost,  beauty  is  the  theme. 

Stand  in  the  entrance  of  Old  Main  and  look  west  between  rows  of  stately  Elms, 

Elders,  Cedars  and  down  "the  winding  path" 
toward  the  President's  House  and  you  have 
what  is  shown  above,  as  nearly  as  a  photo- 
graph can  make  it,  one  of  Lombard's  beauty 
spots. 

Just  as  an  active  mind  can  grow  only  in  a 
healthy  body, — so  can  an  educational  develop- 
ment be  complete  only  as  the  surroundings  are 
congenial.     That  is  why  Lombard  is  kept  ever 

The  Executive  Mansion  beautiful    and   wholesome. 


Old  Main  A  Classic  Bit  of  Romanesque 


Architecture 


What  a  wonderful  pile  of  masonry  Old  Main  must  have  been  nearly  seventy  years 
ago,  when  it  stretched  its  towers  and  peeked  roof  so  high  above  the  treeless  prairie, 
and  how  the  good  farmers  must  have  admired  the  audacious  spirit  of  Lombard's  early 
benefactors.  Not  less  do  we  to-day  admire  the  mellowed  Romanesque  castle  and  its 
artistic  setting,  nor  have  we  forgotten  those  loyal  friends  whose  munificence  is  our 
heritage. 

The  turreted  bell  tower,  the 
mythical  unfinished  tower,  the 
beautiful  windows,  the  "spoon 
holder,"  the  stately  entrance, 
all  these  help  to  make  Old  Main 
an  example  of  a  pure  style  of 
architecture  that  has  long  been 
the  admiration  of  Lombard  and 
Galesburg.  Pure  architecture 
in  a  setting  of  Nature's  most 
beautiful,  makes  the  complete 
picture. 

The  Spoon   Holder  and  the  Hall 


At 


mosphere 


Hut  scenery  and  beautiful  buildings  do  not  make 
a  college,  although  they  help  mightily  in  1 1 1  *  -  atmos- 
phere and  environment.  Lombard  has  gathered  to- 
gether within  these  stately,  classic  halls,  a  faculty 
worthy  of  the  institution,  and  has  attracted  to  its 
classes  a  body  of  students,  loyal  to  the  last  trench, 
democratic  to  the  finish  and  earnest  to  a  fault. 

This,  then,  is  the  secret  of  Lombard's  progress 
during  the  past  few  years, — a  Christian  faculty  whose 
example  is  worthy  and  democratic  and  whose  help  is 
cheerfully  and  gladly  given. 

The  courses  of  study  are  just  as  democratic  and 
up-to-date  as  is  the  faculty,  for  around  a  centre  of 
academic,  cultural  studies,  is  wound  enough  work  of  a 
practical  nature  to  graduate  the  student  ready  to  take 
a  definite  place  in  the  world ;  not  only  ready  to  con- 
tinue his  education  elsewhere,  or  merely  able  to  earn  a 
respectable  living,  but  prepared  to  take  some  impor- 
tant place  in  a  live  community  to-day  and  make  his 
presence  felt  at  once.     That  is  Education. 


The  Northeast  One 


Perhaps  More  So,  in  Winter 


The  Mysterious  Unfinished  Tower 


Legends  and   Traditions 


The  legend  of  the  unfinished  tower  tells  us  she  was  a  beautiful  girl,  that  her 
lover  proved  false  and  that  during  the  building  of  Old  Main  she  threw  herself 
from  the  south  cast  tower  one  night.  The  workmen  could  not  be  prevailed  upon 
to  finish  the  masonry,  hence,  an  added  attraction  to  a  beautiful  building. 


Lombard  is  as  full  of  beautiful  traditions  as  is  the  campus  filled  with  trees, 
and  soon  the  Dew  students  become  filled  with  the  stories,  the  songs  and  the 
traditions. 


Autumn   Leaves 


Lombard  Spirit 


The  Strolling:  Walk 


As  intangible  as  a  legend,  is  Lombard 
Spirit.  Just  what  it  is  nobody  knows, 
or  whence  it  comes,  but  that  it  is  there, 
is  certain.  Everybody  has  it,  from 
Freshman  to  Senior,  from  "Dad"  to 
"Prexy,"  graduates,  neighbors,  friends 
and  all,  everybody  who  knows  Lombard 
recognizes  Lombard  Spirit.  It  makes 
them  admire  and  almost  worship  the 
"Lombard  Elm,"  makes  them  stud}^  for 
the  work's  sake,  cheer  at  a  foot  ball 
game  with  the  score  against  them,  and 
help  one  another  over  the  rough  places. 
That's  Lombard  Spirit,  and  you'll  feel 
it  right  away, — after  you've  been  here 
a  very  short  time. 

Lombard  Spirit  is  very  contagious 
and  it  takes,  immediately.  It  is  appar- 
ent on  the  campus,  in  athletics  and  in 
the  class  room.  The  few  who  do  not 
catch  it,  do  not  stay ;  the  rest  are  happy 
because  of  it.  Your  success  at  Lombard 
will  be  due  to  Lombard  Spirit. 


Sunshine  and  Shadow 


College  Life 


The  College  Life  is  a  most  important  part  of  the  college  education.  A  stu- 
dent who  goes  to  college,  recites  his  lessons,  and  retires  to  his  room  and  begins 
digging  away  at  to-morrow's  tasks,  will  graduate,  doubtless,  and  perhaps  with 
a  very  respectable  standing,  but  it  is  as  though  he  had  eaten  the  cake  and 
thrown  away  the  frosting.  To  get  the  complete  good  from  the  work  the  student 
must  enter  actively  into  College  Life.  That  is  what  they  come  here  for.  We 
believe  in  co-education,  we  believe  in  athletics,  in  debating,  glee  clubs,  dramatic 
clubs,  oratory,  parties,  and  frolics.  A  little  frosting  improves  a  fine  big  cake 
and  when  added  by  an  expert,  judicious  hand,  when  spread  evenly,  and  eaten 
with  the  cake,  it  makes  the  whole  more  palatable,  more  nourishing,  and  more 
pleasant. 


The  Hall 


Everything  about  Lombard  is  so 
planned  and  arranged  to  make  the 
educational  work,  the  social  life, 
athletics  and  expenses  all  work  to- 
gether for  the  desired  end.  Boys 
and  girls  enter  Lombard ;  they  are 
graduated  men  and  women.  Some- 
body has  said,  "Education  is 
preparation  for  complete  living." 
Granting  that  this  common-sense 
statement  is  true,  it  is  easy  to  see 
how  Lombard  is  solving  the  edu- 
cational problem,  by  a  thorough 
correlation  of  College  Life. 


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Science  at  Lombard 

Tompkins  Science  Hall  is  the 
best  proof  possible  of  Lombard's 
attitude  toward  twentieth  century 
education.  One  of  Lombard's 
beautiful  buildings  had  for  four 
or  five  years  seemed  to  be  a  bad 
investment,  till  suddenly,  through 
an  inspired  vision.  Alumni  Hall,  in  an  overnight,  changed  its  name  to  Tompkins 
Science  Hall.  Science  to-day  is,  without  question,  the  one  great  department  of  learn- 
ing that  is  attracting  most  attention. 

Men  and  women  alike,  are  specializing  in  the  important  sciences,  recognizing 
that  science  and  industry  must  solve  the  big  problems  of  to-day.  More  positions  are 
open  to  college  graduates  with  a  Scientific  training  than  ever  before  and  Lombard  is 
ready  to  offer  the  best  of  that  training. 

Summed  up,  it  will  be  seen  that  such  courses  as  require  a  scientific  background 
are  most  carefully  prepared  by  specialists  who  know. 


Tompkins  Science  Hall 


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Science  and  Lombard 

Frequent  conferences  are  held  with  University  authorities,  with  industrial 
heads  and  with  prominent  professional  men,  so  that  the  Lombard  courses  may  not 
become  stale  or  old-fashioned.  Thus,  the  Lombard  student  is  given,  not  only  the 
highest  type  of  instruction,  but  also  the  benefit  of  being  constantly  kept  in  touch 
with  the  best  authorities  in  his  subject. 

Lombard's  duty  as  a  progressive  small  college  is  then  plain;  English  and  Latin 
or  French,  and  History  with  Economics  must  form  the  foundation  of  our  educa- 
tional structure.  A  sure,  first  story  is  built,  then  the  special  work  of  Industry  or 
Science  is  added  to  the  building  and  a  complete  piece  of  architecture  is  the  result. 

Chemistry  and  Biology  are  big  and  important;  Home  Economics  with  its 
scientific  background  makes  practice  and  theory  one ;  Mathematics,  Economics  and 
the  science  or  theory  of  industry  gives  us  Business  Administration ;  thus  every 
course  of  study  can  be  analyzed  just  as  it  was  planned. 


Ditto  Dietitians 


The  Gym 


A   <'ov«*1«mI    Decoration 


Atkletics 

All  work  and  no  play  makes  any  place  a  dull  corner. 
Colleges  are  no  exception  and  athletics  answers  the  ques- 
tion. Lombard  has  a  reputation  for  unusually  strong  and 
clean  athletics  earned  by  only  clean,  strong  teams. 

A  Missouri  University  last  year  wrote  Lombard's 
Football  Manager,  saying: 

"Your  request  for  guarantee  is  somewhat 
larger  than  we  are  accustomed  to  pay  but 
Lombard  plays  such  a  clean,  gentlemanly  and 
peppy  game,  that  we  are  glad  to  accept  it  and 
put  you  on  our  schedule." 

The  above  is  but  one  item  of  Lombard's  enviable 
position  in  athletics.  Strong  teams,  gentlemanly  coaches, 
and  sportsmanlike  students,  make  athletics  at  Lombard 
one  of  the  pleasant  activities,  and  gives  Lombard  a  rep- 
utation that  is  well  known  and  of  the  highest  type. 

Success  in  athletics  consists  in  winning  contests  and 


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in  clean  athletics.     Lombard  has  both  in  large  quantities. 

An  important  factor  in  Lombard's  athletics  is  the  Annual  Interscholastic  Track 
Meet.  The  Meet  in  1921  showed  thirty- five  of  the  best  high  schools  of  Central  Illinois 
represented  by  over  three  hundred  athletes.  These  young  men  are  the  finest  in  the 
state  and  Lombard  is  glad  to  introduce  them  to  our  beautiful  campus,  and  thus  show 
them  what  to  expect  when  they  select  a  college  later. 

A  real  record  was  made  last 
year  in  athletics  when  over 
eighty  per  cent,  of  all  men  in 
college  were  on  the  field  in  some 
form  of  athletics.  This  is  the 
ideal  condition,  and  overcomes 
the  unjust  criticism  that  college 
athletics  attracts  but  a  few  good 
men.  This  is  not  true  at  Lom- 
bard, for  with  nearly  all  men 
taking  part  in  one  sport  or  an- 
other, it  gives  every  man  an 
opportunity  of  making  the  team 
and  it  gives  every  man  physical 
training  so  necessary  for  com- 
plete health. 

A  High  Jump 


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In  the  Womens'  Gym 


Women  and  Physical  Education 


But  Lombard  is  co-educational.  Yes,  and  that  is  why  we  have  an  ex- 
pert at  the  head  of  the  co-ed  department  where  the  Lombard  girls  enjoy  per- 
haps even  more  than  do  the  men,  their  athletic  games,  their  physical  educa- 
tion development,  their  pageantry  and  aesthetic  dancing  and,  in  fact,  all  the 
work  that  not  only  better  fits  them  for  life,  but  prepares  so  many  of  them 
for  a  special  work  based  upon  the  theory  and  practice  of  Physical  Education. 

Pageantry  is  an  important  part  of  Lombard's  work  with  the  women  and 
the  Annual  May  fete  at  Commencement  time  is  one  of  the  attractions  of  the 
city.  Over  three  thousand  people  witnessed  the  1920  pageant  and  students, 
graduates  and  friends  look  forward  to  this  event. 


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The  Girls'  (ilee 

Student  Activities 

Nearly  every  Educational  department  of  Lombard  is  represented  by  a  club 
or  organization.  Each  student  is  interested  in  his  or  her  specialty  and  so  enjoys 
this  added  opportunity  of  further  study  with  others  interested  in  the  same  thing. 

What  can  be  more  pleasant  than  a  meeting  of  the  Alchemists  Club,  com- 
posed of  twenty  or  more  upper  classmen,  all  interested  in  Chemistry?  And 
just  so  is  it  with  respect  to  "The  Commerce  Club,"  "The  Campus  Players/* 
"The  Home  Economics  Club,"  "The  Three  Arts  Club,"  "The  Glee  Clubs, '* 
"The  Mathematics  Club,"  "The  Pageantry  Players." 


And  the  Boys,  Too 


Sigma  Nu 


Frats  and  Secrets 


The  greatest  secret  about  fraternities  is  no  secret  at  alj.  That  is,  the  society 
must  have  a  college  in  order  to  live,  and  what  is  also  true, — no  progressive  college  can 
long  continue  that  does  not  recognize  that  complete  cooperation  with  the  fraternities 
if  desirable  for  both  parties. 

A  majority  of  Lombard's  men  live  at  their  fraternity  houses  which  are  more  like 
a  big,  happy  family  of  grown  up  boys  than  like  a  club  house  or  a  lodge  room.  If 
once  a  week  a  meeting  is  held  behind  sealed  doors,  so  much  the  better,  for  where  is 
the  family  that  does  not  enjoy  that  quiet  hour  all  by  themselves  occasionally  where 
intimacies  arc  passed  and  where  advice  is  given  to  the  j^ounger  from  the  judgment  of 
the  older? 

What  can  be  more  desirable  than  the  family  board  where  three  times  each  day 
its  members  break  bread  together  and  in  a  jovial  and  free  way  discuss  the  little  prob- 
Jems  and  successes  of  the  dav  ? 


Phi  Delta  Theta 


Frats  and  Secrets  Continued 

Friendships  knit  in  college  days  last  throughout  life  and  those  started  in  the 
fraternity,  the  club,  or  the  society  are  strongest  of  all. 

So  Lombard  welcomes  its  three  strong  fraternities,  its  clubs,  and  associations, 
and  will  ever  harbor  and  help  these  great,  democratic  organizations  so  long  as  they 
stand  for  better  manhood,  for  high  academic  principles,  and  for  a  better  Lombard. 

A  most  significant  event  occurred  during  the  Spring  of  1921  when  the  three  fra- 
ternities of  Lombard  arranged  a  banquet  at  one  of  the  city  club  houses,  invited  the 
college  president  and  two  professors  and  "with  their  feet  under  the  same  table,"  en- 
joyed a  fine  dinner,  and  discussed  subjects  of  mutual  interest.  This  dinner  was 
unique,  an  affair  that  no  college  ever  before  has  attempted  and  another  example  of 
Lombard  democracv. 


Sororities  Too 


Lombard  boasts  three  strong  national  sororities.  What  is  said  of  fraternities 
applies  equally  to  the  sororities,  except  that  in  the  small  college  it  is  demanded  that 
the  girls  shall  have  dormitory  protection  not  offered  by  the  chapter  house.  Lombard 
Hall,  a  self-governing  institution  of  all  the  "out  of  town"  women  students,  is  the 
happiest,  big  family  imaginable.  Think,  if  you  will,  of  a  hundred  fine,  young  women, 
lacking  entirely  in  snobbishness,  full  of  college  spirit  and  the  principles  of  democ- 
racy, living  happily  together  under  rules  of  their  own  making  and  you  have  Lombard 
Hall. 


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One  of  the  Hall  Parlors 


Lombard  Hall 

Life  at  Lombard  Hall  is  happy,  homelike  and  democratic.  The  girls  like  it, 
because  it  is  their  own.  The  "Hall"  is  governed  entirely  by  the  girls  them- 
selves ;  they  make  their  own  laws ;  they  elect  their  own  officers,  and  punish  the 
offenders. 

The  Dean  of  Women,  a  sympathetic  member  of  the  faculty,  lives  at  the 
Hall,  and  has  indirect  supervision  over  the  girls.  Faculty  discipline  is  seldom 
necessary,  for  here  the  Golden  Rule  is  worked  to  a  satisfactory  conclusion. 

Regularity  of  habits  in  rising,  eating,  study  and  recreation  makes  any  life 
a  happy  one.  Yes,  if  a  girl  oversteps  her  privileges  she  is  punished  by  her  own 
"Judicial  Committee,"  and  it  is  almost  an  unknown  condition  where  "the  col- 
lege" is  asked  or  obliged  to  intercede.  No  wonder  then,  that  Lombard  girls 
seldom  wish  to  "transfer"  to  another  college.  The  only  answer  can  be  that  it 
is  educationally,  satisfactory  and  socially,  happy. 


Iainch  on  the  Campus 


OKe  HWfArts 


Vocal  Art  Studio 


VOCAL  ART,  THE  SPEECH  ARTS  AND  PIANO  are  most  important  parts 
of  a  complete  cultural  education.  That  is  why  Lombard  advises  that  each  student 
spend  a  portion  of  his  or  her  time  in  at  least  one  of  the  studies  of  these  departments. 
In  fact,  many  specialize  in  this  work  for  chautauqua  or  platform  work,  for  teaching 
or  for  the  cultural  advantage  it  offers. 

Specialists  in  per- 
formance and  teaching 
ability  are  at  the  heads 
of  this  work  and  Lom- 
bard points  with  a 
jealous  pride  to  the 
unexcelled  graduates 
who  have  studied  in 
the  artistic  environ- 
ment of  its  School  of 
Three  Arts. 


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Lombard's  School  of  the  Three  Arts  is  more  than  the  ordinary  conservatory.  It 
combines  the  courses  in  Vocal  Art,  Expression  or  Piano,  with  the  academic  college 
courses  making  a  completely  rounded  out  course  in  which  the  specialty  or  major  is 
among  the  Three  Arts. 

The  delightful  studios  lend 
atmosphere  to  the  work,  and 
frequent  recitals  keep  the  in- 
terest among  the  students  at 
a  high  pitch  at  all  times 

The  Lombard  chapel,  where 
the  recitals  are  held  is  a  dig- 
nified, beautiful  auditorium 
and  one  admirably  adapted  to 
this  purpose. 

Lombard  points  with  much 
pride  and  gratification  to  its 
"Three  Arts  School,"  the 
studios  where  the  work  is  ac- 
complished, and  principally  to 
the    fine    students    who    have 

Chapel— for  Assembly  and  Recitals  been  prepared  here. 


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